Josef Newgarden to cash record check for Indy 500 win
The winner's check and total purse for the 2023 Indianapolis 500 both set records.
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INDIANAPOLIS — Josef Newgarden's first Indianapolis 500 win earned him a record pay day.
The Team Penske driver will collect a check for $3.666 million at Monday night's Victory Celebration. The winner's prize comes from a total purse of $17,021,500.
Both the purse and the winner's payout are Indianapolis 500 records, according to IMS. The purse was nearly a million dollars larger than last year's total and Newgarden's winner's check is over $500,000 more than Marcus Ericsson earned in 2022.
Ericsson took home $1.043 million for finishing second.
Benjamin Pedersen earned Rookie of the Year and got a $50,000 bonus to earn his team $215,300.
The average payout this year was also a record at $500,600.
You can watch the Victory Celebration starting at 8 p.m. on Channel 13.
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Here are the final amounts for each of the drivers:
Source: WTHR
